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When We Listen – September 1, 2022
Read with Me James 3:13-18 (HCSB)Who is wise and has understanding among you? He should show his works by good conduct with wisdom’s gentleness. But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come...
When We Listen – August 31, 2022
Read with Me James 3:9-12 (HCSB)We praise our Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God’s likeness with it. Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way. Does a spring pour out sweet and bitter...
When We Listen – August 30, 2022
Read with Me James 3:2-8 (HCSB)If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.Now when we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we also guide the whole animal. And consider ships: Though...
When We Listen – August 23, 2022
Read with Me James 3:1 (HCSB)Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment, Listen with Me In James’ day as in our own, there were a plethora of people who knew a bit, and who wanted the esteem of being a teacher. Some...
When We Listen – August 22, 2022
Read with Me James 2:25-26 (HCSB)And in the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different route? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead....
When We Listen – August 12, 2022
Read with Me James 2:18-24 (HCSB)But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe—and they shudder.Foolish man! Are...
When We Listen – August 9, 2022
Read with Me James 2:14-17 (HCSB)What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat...
When We Listen – August 8, 2022
Read with Me James 2:8-13 (HCSB)Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the entire...
When We Listen – August 2, 2022
Dear readers; Thank you for your prayers for my eyes. I had my surgery on July 14 and, after a recovery period of nearly two weeks, the vision in my left eye has ben fully restored. Even though the vision in my right eye is still quite distorted, and likely will be...
When We Listen – July 22, 2022
Read with Me James 2:1-4 (HCSB)My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also...